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The British Asian writer Sathnam Sanghera suffers an identity crisis on a journey to India

People sometimes assume, quite understandably I suppose, that India must be a
less stressful prospect for British Asians than for most. However, in my
experience, being stuck between East and West makes the sub-continent even
more of a challenge.

As a child, the difficulty came in the form of being forced to visit thousands
of relatives you didn’t recognise, having your Indian language skills and
dress sense mocked in the process of so doing – and, occasionally, resisting
offers of opium.

As a student, India was onerous because I was in a country that should have
felt like home, but which